Messiaen: Chamber Works

British pianist Matthew Schellhorn is joined by the Soloists of the Philharmonia Orchestra in this recording of Olivier Messiaen's chamber works, including the eight-movement masterpiece Quatuor pour la fin du Temps, written while the composer was a prisoner of war and premiered in 1941 at the Stalag VIIIA camp in Silesia.

Marking one hundred years since the birth of the composer, the disc also includes the newly published Fantaisie for violin and piano (discovered after the composer's death) and the world première recording of a beautiful miniature for solo piano.

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Stations

Matthew Schellhorn's first solo piano disc is scheduled for release in 2012.

Stations is a fourteen-movement work for solo piano by Irish composer Ian Wilson (b. 1964) inspired by the Catholic devotion of the Stations of the Cross – a narrative in fourteen scenes that relates to the events leading from Christ’s death sentence to his entombment.

The work is divided into four Books and each Book is also performable as a separate entity. Matthew Schellhorn gave the world premiere of each Book separately between 2007 and 2008 and also gave the first complete performances of the work in 2009.

It was recorded in June 2011 in the Curtis Auditorium, Cork School of Music, Ireland.

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Outside

Matthew Schellhorn features on Outside, debut album of Kazakh-born violinist, Aisha Orazbayeva.

Released on Nonclassical, 31 October 2011.

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